PoloMint
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- Fife, Scotland
I thought I'd try out Ubuntu as it seems a popular and well supported distribution of Linux.
I had an initial problem with the boot CD not liking my SATA drive, but adding a line to the boot sequence fixed that.
The auto dual boot (with Vista) worked fine. Initially after installing it said there was no operating systems installed, but after a reboot it found everything.
While the system worked fine, it was not usable. Default graphics card drivers left me with a smudgy image, after many hours of fiddling I finally get hold of the correct drivers (having to convert them from another distribution) and got it at a decent resolution - but then the colours weren't quite right. And there was still no sound - fixing that seems an even bigger challenge.
At this point the system started crashing - seemingly for no reason. Looking this up it seemed like a common problem, perhaps connected to firefox being installed. So I gave up.
Many many hours work left me with a system that won't even run an hour without freezing, has no sound and poor graphics, all of which seem like common problems. Had this been a microsoft product it would be being ridiculed everywhere. I like trying out new things and don't mind spending time getting drivers and things to work, but I just couldn't see that ending up with a system that I could confidently use - so I'm back with Vista again.
Does anyone here actually use linux as their main operating system? Not as something they tried out one weekend or use as a file server, but as their primary system they spend most of their time on? I had thought Ubuntu might be this for me, but given my recent experience it will be a while before I try it again.
I had an initial problem with the boot CD not liking my SATA drive, but adding a line to the boot sequence fixed that.
The auto dual boot (with Vista) worked fine. Initially after installing it said there was no operating systems installed, but after a reboot it found everything.
While the system worked fine, it was not usable. Default graphics card drivers left me with a smudgy image, after many hours of fiddling I finally get hold of the correct drivers (having to convert them from another distribution) and got it at a decent resolution - but then the colours weren't quite right. And there was still no sound - fixing that seems an even bigger challenge.
At this point the system started crashing - seemingly for no reason. Looking this up it seemed like a common problem, perhaps connected to firefox being installed. So I gave up.
Many many hours work left me with a system that won't even run an hour without freezing, has no sound and poor graphics, all of which seem like common problems. Had this been a microsoft product it would be being ridiculed everywhere. I like trying out new things and don't mind spending time getting drivers and things to work, but I just couldn't see that ending up with a system that I could confidently use - so I'm back with Vista again.
Does anyone here actually use linux as their main operating system? Not as something they tried out one weekend or use as a file server, but as their primary system they spend most of their time on? I had thought Ubuntu might be this for me, but given my recent experience it will be a while before I try it again.